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• Multiple Choice

NOTE: The following items also appear in the online study guide that is available to students:

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• Robert Watson was instrumental in developing interest in psychology’s history in the 1960s. During this time he

accomplished all of the following except

• played a key role in forming APA’s Division 26 (on history)
• was first Director of doctoral program in psychology’s history at UNH
• established and became the first director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology
• had a key role in forming Cheiron

• Which of the following is the least important reason for studying history (in general, not just psychology’s

history)?

• it enables us to understand the present better
• knowing history is the only sure way to predict the future
• it prevents us from thinking that things were always much better in the past
• it helps us to understand human nature

• Early in the chapter, what was the purpose of describing the formation of the Association for Psychological

Science (APS)?

• to show that understanding the present requires knowing the past
• to show that the most important reason for studying history is to be able to predict the future
• to show that psychology can never be a unified discipline
• to show that most research psychologists know little and care little about history

• What was the purpose of the Boorstin quote from his essay The Prison of the Present?
• to show that a full understanding of the present requires knowing the past
• to show that the most important reason for studying history is to be able to predict the future
• to show that knowing history prevents us from thinking that things were always better in the

past than they are now

• to show that most psychologists prefer to live in the past

• Which of the following is the least valuable reason for studying psychology’s history?
• it will enable us to avoid the mistakes of the past
• it will help synthesize the content learned in other psychology courses
• it helps enable us better understand the present status of psychology
• issues of importance 100 years ago are still important today

• Furumoto’s concept of “old” history is characterized by
• internal history
• naturalistic history
• an emphasis on historical context
• historicism

• Furumoto’s concept of “new” history is characterized by
• internal history
• personalistic history
• an emphasis on the history of ideas
• historicism

• Someone taking an “old” history stance would, according to Furumoto, be likely to say that
• Jones’s 1920 study is important because it anticipated Smith’s 1997 research
• the history of psychology is, in essence, the history of great psychologists
• modern psychology has progressed significantly from the days of the introspective analysis
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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study MaterialTest Bank—Chapter 1 Goodwin History, 5e 1-2

• Old history thinking typically includes
• origin myths
• emphasizing the zeitgeist
• historicist rather than presentist views
• denying the importance of history

• Tracing modern experimental social psychology to Triplett’s 1898 study that simulated competition among

cyclists is an example of

• the importance of the zeitgeist
• an eponym
• an origin myth
• a multiple

• Which of the following is true about an origin myth in psychology?
• it usually describes events that never actually happened
• it falsely gives credit to a discovery to person X when person Y in fact anticipated the discovery

some years before person X

• it glorifies the zeitgeist at the expense of failing to recognize the value of individual genius
• it gives the false impression of a clear starting point for a scientific approach to some area of

psychology

• If you accuse someone of being excessively “presentist,” it means that this person
• believes the present can only be understood by understanding the past
• thinks the past should be evaluated by using the standards of the present
• believes history is of no importance at all to the present
• thinks the present can be understood (it is happening now); the past can never be understood

• Someone taking a naturalistic approach to history would say
• Darwin revolutionized biology; the 19th century would have been completely different without

him

• history changes because special people (e.g., Einstein) force history to change
• I’m not at all surprised that two people (Darwin & Wallace) thought of the idea of natural

selection at about the same time

• the importance of the zeitgeist has been overstated

• Someone taking a naturalistic approach to history would say that
• without Descartes, the history of reflex action would be totally different
• history changes because of the work of highly creative and forceful individuals
• the importance of the zeitgeist has been overstated; people are more important
• biography matters, but the zeitgeist is a more critical factor

• The existence of “multiples” supports which of the following?
• naturalistic approach
• internal approach
• personalistic approach
• presentist approach

• The existence of “multiples”
• refutes the idea that the zeitgeist is important
• supports a naturalistic more than a personalistic viewpoint
• supports a personalistic more than a naturalistic viewpoint
• demonstrates the dangers of presentism

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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study MaterialTest Bank—Chapter 1 Goodwin History, 5e 1-3

• According to a historicist approach to history,
• the past should be understood with reference to the values and understandings of the past
• the past should be evaluated by using the standards of the present
• the present can only be understood by knowing the past
• the present can be understood because it is happening now, but the past can never be

understood

• Someone taking a personalistic approach to history would say that
• without Descartes, the history of reflex action would be totally different
• the importance of the zeitgeist has been overstated
• both without Descartes, the history of reflex action would be totally different and the importance of the

zeitgeist has been overstated

• none of these

• In contrasting “old” and “new” history, Furumoto described the old way of doing history as
• historicist, internal, and presentist
• external, presentist, and naturalistic
• personalistic, internal, and presentist
• contextual, presentist, and personalistic

• Which of the following is true about an external history of psychology?
• it examines the influence of such things as the social and political context in which

important events occurred

• it emphasizes the importance of how theories evolve (that is, an external history is a

history of ideas)

• it emphasizes the accomplishments of great individuals
• it evaluates the past with reference to present knowledge and values

• Someone arguing for the importance of the zeitgeist
• prefers a personalistic rather than a naturalistIc history
• believes that “the men make the times”
• emphasizes the importance of history’s “multiples”
• believes that the social and political context is not relevant

• To say that “without Descartes, the history of reflex action would be totally different” is to take a
• contextual approach to history
• naturalistic view of history
• personalistic view of history
• presentist approach of history

• Compared to the “new” history, the “old,” traditional way of looking at psychology’s history is characterized

by

• a historicist approach
• a naturalistic approach
• an internal approach
• a contextual approach

• When reading about Goddard and the immigrants, someone taking a presentist approach would
• emphasize how Goddard and others were affected by the theory of evolution
• try to understand the zeitgeist
• concentrate on understanding the mental processes involved in scoring well on an IQ test
• criticize Goddard for failing to recognize the importance of an immigrant’s cultural background

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